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DETROIT (AP) -- The Detroit Red Wings have placed Niklas Kronwall on long-term injured reserve with a knee injury. Continue to Article

February 01, 2016 5:37:pm EST

Here are your Puck Headlines: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. Have a link you want to submit? Email us at puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com . Ok, you win. #NHLAllStar #JohnScott pic.twitter.com/LNzB3WuXxU — St JohnScott IceCaps (@IceCapsAHL) February 1, 2016 • A million likes for the now-St. JohnScott IceCaps of the AHL, the current team of the All-Star MVP. [ @IceCapsAHL ] • IT'S HAPPENING. Connor McDavid to return on Tuesday versus Columbus. [ @TSNRyanRishaug ] • Well this is interesting... John Scott is one of the NHL's Stars of the Week. [ NHL ] • Bruce Arthur: NHL All-Star John Scott saved hockey for a day. [ The Star ] • Don't worry about writing a screenplay, John Scott has already been approached about having one written. [ TSN ] • Down Goes Brown: All-Star weekend review. [ DGB ] • Semyon Varlamov testified in the civil suit brought forth by his former girlfriend. [ BSN Denver ] • Congrats to Arizona Coyotes rookie netminder Louis Domingue for being named the NHL Rookie of the Month for January. [ NHL ] • As for stars of the month of January: Evgeny Kuznetsov, Corey Crawford, and Kris Letang. [ NHL ] • How Alex Ovechkin’s car donation from last year’s All-Star Game transformed the Washington chapter of the American Special Hockey Association. [ RMNB ] • The forgotten story of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's German ice hockey team. [ The Guardian ] • NHL players understand their "value" when it comes to comparing who they were traded for. [ Post-Gazette ] • Sean Day received 'exceptional' player status in the OHL. After his brother was arrested for killing a woman in a drunk driving wreck, his play has faltered. Day opens up about his life off the ice. [ Sportsnet ] • Incredibly moving story of a 10-year-old who finally got back on the ice after the discovery of a cancerous brain tumor two years ago. He had to relearn how to do everything. [ KMOV ] • ECHL referee, Andrea Barone, came out publicly in December. He reports to still hearing homophobic slurs on the ice. Quebec had started a campaign against use of the language. [ CBC ] • One of the most storied high school hockey programs in Texas shut down its program due to the lack of players. [ Star Tribune ] • NHL teams have to visit every arena at least once during the season. This has led to a scheduling nightmare straight out of the matrix. The league and the NHLPA will keep the format this way through the 2018-19 season after signing an extension. [ NY Post ] • Beer league hockey is growing in California. How many beer leagues outside of Silicon Valley have billionaires among their ranks? [ Sportsnet ] • It's official - seats are going into the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. [ Sin Bin ] • Daniel Cleary has been sidelined with a knee injury for a month while with the Grand Rapids Griffins. He continues to mentor the Detroit Red Wings prospects waiting for their chance at the show. [ M Live ] • Time for the Columbus Blue Jackets to dump the crusty veterans, play the kids, and get another top draft pick. [ Blue Jackets Xtra ] • Story behind the Gibson Guitars gifted to the All-Stars in Nashville. [ Vice Sports ] • We all know enforcers are a dying breed. It's a shame because they're the ones who presented the least amount of ego and the most amount of fun for their teams and fans. [ The Canafornians ] • Suggested blockbuster trade deals for the Boston Bruins that makes sense for all parties involved. [ Boston Sports Desk ] • An executive from AEG explains how the Los Angeles Kings landed next year's All-Star Game. [ Mayor's Manor ] • Players Helping Players goes beyond the efforts of the NHL Alumni Association to provide assistance and aid to those who've hung up the skates. [ Spector's Hockey ] • The Top 5 jerseys worn by All-Star MVP John Scott in his career to this point. [ Hockey By Design ] • Potential second half call ups to boost your fantasy hockey roster. [ Dobber ] • Finally, part one of the epic two part series of "Between Two Zambonis with Ryan Kesler" featuring forward Rickard Rakell and defenseman Hampus Lindholm. The two Swedes talk about being roomates, the Lion King, you know, the usual stuff. - - - - - - - Jen Neale is an editor for Puck Daddy on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email her at puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com or follow her on Twitter! Follow @MsJenNeale_PD . MORE FROM YAHOO HOCKEY: Continue to Article

February 01, 2016 2:30:pm EST

NASHVILLE – Dylan Larkin has wheels. The Detroit Red Wings rookie won the NHL Fastest Skater event to kick off the Skills Competition Saturday night at Bridgestone Arena. Not only did Larkin post the fastest time among the six competitors, but he also was given the opportunity to beat Mike Gartner’s record time of 13.386 set in 1996. Larkin is now the fourth straight rookie to win the event, joining Jonathan Drouin (2015), Carl Hagelin (2012) and Michael Grabner (2011). FINAL RESULTS East: Dylan Larkin, Detroit Red Wings / 12.894 Brandon Saad, Columbus Blue Jackets / 13.634 Erik Karlsson, Ottawa Senators / 14.630 Kris Letang, Pittsburgh Penguins / 14.081 West: Roman Josi, Nashville Predators / 13.527 Matt Duchene, Colorado Avalanche / 14.026 Taylor Hall, Edmonton Oilers / 13.654 Dustin Byfuglien, Winnipeg Jets / 14.203 Score through first event: East 5, West 1 Larkin vs. Gartner's record: 13.172 - - - - - - - Sean Leahy is the associate editor for Puck Daddy on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @Sean_Leahy MORE FROM YAHOO HOCKEY: Continue to Article

January 30, 2016 8:03:pm EST

NASHVILLE – Steven Stamkos is, according to The Hockey News, the most powerful man in the NHL. “The picture on the front of the cover looked good,” he said. Stamkos knows he landed atop the magazine’s “power and influence list” because his free agent status this summer could shake up the NHL, and specifically the Toronto Maple Leafs, his hometown team to which he’s been constantly linked. Unless, of course, he remains with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Is there any chance he ends this contract drama before the end of the regular season? “I don’t know,” said Stamkos, speaking with the media at the NHL All-Star Game in Nashville on Friday. “There’s really no timeline or date that you put. Obviously, it’s gone on this long, you never know what to expect. It’s been a process. I think you realize when you get in a situation like this, it either happens overnight or takes time.” Stamkos has had to strike the balance between keeping his distance and being an active participant in the ongoing talks. “I’d like to say, with the talks, that you’re pretty involved. You know what’s going on. It’s not daily, but there’s communication. And when there is, you’re involved in it,” he said. Stamkos has the luxury of playing in Tampa Bay, away from the small army of reporters in places like Toronto that parse every word and examine every tweet he favorites. But Stamkos admits the contract talks creep into his thoughts with frequency. “It’s in your head, for sure. You’re human. You try not to have it affect your play on the ice,” he said. “The guys understand. They’ve been through it before, too.” So Stamkos waits, and he watches. Like when Anze Kopitar of the Los Angeles Kings signed his 8-year, $80-million contract extension recently. “I wouldn’t say I was monitoring [those talks]. But you’re aware of it. That one maybe gets a little more play from me because you’re asked about comparisons and things like that. But I’m not sitting on my phone, refreshing it," said Stamkos. Kopitar stayed with his team. No one's quite sure where Stamkos will end up. “The lines of communication have always been open," he said. -- Greg Wyshynski is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Contact him at puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com or find him on Twitter. His book, TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE PUCK , is available on Amazon and wherever books are sold. Continue to Article

January 29, 2016 7:14:pm EST

8. Telling your kids you'll get them a puppy if an NHL player scores a goal So this is a thing now? Parents got sick of forcing their small children to cry when a moderately popular local player was traded in a cloying and transparent attempt to get a signed jersey they will probably put on eBay within the week. So this is the new thing to get their kid on the news or a local broadcast for a second. “We're gonna name a puppy after Taylor Fedun if he scores tonight.” Yeah okay. Parents who do this stuff to their kids should be in jail. 7. Sergei Bobrovsky's groin The thing with counting on any sort of rebound for the Columbus Blue Jackets any time soon is not so much that they don't have talent in the pipeline. They have plenty of promising players up front, and a defense led by Zach Werenski and Seth Jones for the next decade will probably look pretty good. It might get to the point where even John Tortorella couldn't screw up this team's path to success. Except they really need to draft a replacement groin for Sergei Bobrovsky. Bobrovsky's talent is unquestioned. He won the Vezina at 24. and since moving to Columbus four years ago has a .921 save percentage while the rest of the league averaged about .914. But here's the problem: Since January 2014, Bobrovsky has missed 52 games with a groin injury, and was just put on injured reserve with another one on Monday. The two most recent are, apparently, small aggravations of an injury suffered early this year, which isn't so bad, but he's still out indefinitely and it's a major theoretical and real-world problem for Columbus going forward. Bobrovsky's cap hit is a whopping $7.425 million, the highest on the Blue Jackets by a considerable margin, and he's signed through 2019. If this is going to become a thing where he's missing 20 games a year with this injury, it's a major concern. Fortunately, the Jackets are now sending Bobrovsky to a different specialist than the one he has been seeing, and a doctor who specializes in sports medicine told Aaron Portzline that there's probably a light at the end of the tunnel in terms of his groin being able to just get back to 100 percent and staying there. For his sake, and that of this currently hopeless team, you'd really hope so. 6. Friday night's All-Star “festivities” This has some very real potential... to match the NHL Awards in terms of absolute drudgery. You read the lineup and you're just like, “Hmm, I've heard of the guys from the NHL. Aaron Lewis I think is the guy from Staind and it's been a while since anyone cared about his work (thanks!). Big and Rich had that embarrassing “Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy” song that should have had them brought up on charges by the Hague. I don't know who anyone else is, so suffice it to say they are not good. Due to truth in advertising laws, I have to assume they're only calling this show “NHL All-Star Friday Night: Live in Music City” because referring to it as “festivities,” would imply at least one (1) person will have fun. Meanwhile, the NHL could have booked this actual band from Nashville, but didn't, because the NHL is always bad and wrong: 5. Celebrity coaches Speaking of All-Star weekend, it's all well and good to have celebrity coaches, but when those celebrities are Dierks Bentley (legitimate celebrity), Vince Gill (celebrity in 1992 with a certain subset of Americans), Charles Kelley (the guy from It's Always Sunny, I think?) and Chris Young (pretty sure it's the very solid outfielder for the Boston Red Sox), the word ought to come with scare quotes around it. Continue to Article

January 27, 2016 4:43:pm EST

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